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Native American Legends (Folklore, Myths, and Traditional Indian Stories)

Native American Legends (Folklore, Myths, and Traditional Indian Stories)
Indigenous languages Native American cultures What's new on our site today! This page is our collection of Native American folktales and traditional stories that can be read online. Sponsored Links As well as our collections of tribal legends and legend archives, we also have several pages of comparative legends, for the native stories of the Wabanaki tribes (including the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki tribes,) the native stories of the Iroquois tribes (including the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes,) for the native stories of the Anishinabe tribes (including the Chippewa, Ottawa, Algonquin, and Potawatomi tribes,) and for the native stories of the Algonquian tribes (including the Wabanaki, Anishinabe, Menominee, Wampanoag, Shawnee, and Lenape tribes.) Enjoy the stories! Native American Folklore by Tribe Native American Folklore Indexes Native American Mythological Characters Native American Creation Myths Native American Trickster Myths Related:  Native AmericanSubject Knowledge Resources for Teachers

Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of North America Coyote and Opossum appear in the stories of a number of tribes. The mythologies of the indigenous peoples of North America comprise many bodies of traditional narratives associated with religion from a mythographical perspective. Indigenous North American belief systems include many sacred narratives. Such spiritual stories are deeply based in Nature and are rich with the symbolism of seasons, weather, plants, animals, earth, water, sky and fire. The principle of an all embracing, universal and omniscient Great Spirit, a connection to the Earth, diverse creation narratives and collective memories of ancient ancestors are common. Algonquian (northeastern US, Great Lakes)[edit] Plains Natives[edit] Blackfoot mythology – A North American tribe who currently live in Montana. Muskogean (southern US) and Iroquois (Eastern US)[edit] Alaska and Canada[edit] Pacific Northwest[edit] Uto-Aztecan (Great Basin to Mexico)[edit] Other southwestern US[edit] Central America[edit] South America[edit] Colin F.

Battle of the Little Bighorn - Native American History Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse (c.1840-77), leaders of the Sioux on the Great Plains, strongly resisted the mid-19th-century efforts of the U.S. government to confine their people to reservations. In 1875, after gold was discovered in South Dakota’s Black Hills, the U.S. Army ignored previous treaty agreements and invaded the region. This betrayal led many Sioux and Cheyenne tribesmen to leave their reservations and join Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana. By the late spring of 1876, more than 10,000 Native Americans had gathered in a camp along the Little Bighorn River–which they called the Greasy Grass–in defiance of a U.S. War Department order to return to their reservations or risk being attacked. In mid-June, three columns of U.S. soldiers lined up against the camp and prepared to march.

Shasta Secrets « Mt Shasta Spirit ysterious Shasta beckons the world-weary traveler, eager to escape from the world of the mundane into the world of the divine. Even the stark, rolling beauty of the northern California highway, flirting with the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, sharply gives way to the sublime majesty of mighty Shasta’s peak. Upon approaching the scenic beauty of the great mountain and its numerous secondary features, one feels somehow transported to another land, to a magical, former time when life was simpler, and grander. My first experience with Shasta was as a side trip while visiting relatives in northern California one summer. I was expecting to experience the typical day trip: a good day’s hike, some nice scenery, a good meal at a local restaurant, some nice souvenirs to take home, and perhaps some interesting experiences to talk about around the dinner table. After some window shopping in cozy downtown Mount Shasta city, a luxurious hike on Shasta’s Mt. Mt.

Dawes Act (1887) Approved on February 8, 1887, "An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations," known as the Dawes Act, emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes. Federal Indian policy during the period from 1870 to 1900 marked a departure from earlier policies that were dominated by removal, treaties, reservations, and even war. The new policy focused specifically on breaking up reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans. Very sincere individuals reasoned that if a person adopted white clothing and ways, and was responsible for his own farm, he would gradually drop his Indian-ness and be assimilated into the population. It would then no longer be necessary for the government to oversee Indian welfare in the paternalistic way it had been obligated to do, or provide meager annuities that seemed to keep the Indian in a subservient and poverty-stricken position.

A Primer on Native American Spirituality: It’s History, Influence & Legacy “Benjamin Franklin, Tom Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, among others, openly acknowledged their debt to Native Americans for the structure of the democracy they crafted. The same revolutionary concepts of government they learned from the Indians were later exported to Europe, where they were carried directly by Thomas Paine.” As American Indians emerged during the past century from the controlling influence of Christian missionaries on the reservations, they have fought to reclaim their religious heritage and to guard it from distortion by the dominant white culture of North America. Archaeologists propose that tens of thousands of years ago a somewhat uniform culture stretched around the northernmost regions of the globe from Greenland and Scandinavia to northern Asia and Siberia. The Roots of Democracy Rituals and Customs In many cases, however, tribes differ among themselves as to specific rituals and ceremonies. Like this: Like Loading... Related

References Earthcode: White Buffalo Teachings with Chief Arvol Looking Horse To everyone who cares for peace..... written by Peter Champoux Listen to a story that has blazed up bright from the council-fires of the Dakotas. It has all the ingredients: youthful suffering, Native American legend and wisdom, patriotism in its deepest sense, world-wide leadership, the overcoming of tremendous odds, and a hint of warm summer breezes to come. This story is the life of Chief Arvol Looking Horse who was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, in third world conditions. At the age of twelve, Arvol was given 'the pipe' by his grandmother, along with a particular challenge that comes with this responsibility as the Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe of Peace: Arvol could not swear, drink alcohol, or fight. Through his extensive travels over the past several years, Arvol has brought to the world the peace-message as taught by White Buffalo Calf Women through an annual event he named World Peace and Prayer Day. Sincerely, Peter Champoux Hau kola.

Native American Cultures - Facts, Regions & Tribes Many thousands of years before Christopher Columbus’ ships landed in the Bahamas, a different group of people discovered America: the nomadic ancestors of modern Native Americans who hiked over a “land bridge” from Asia to what is now Alaska more than 12,000 years ago. In fact, by the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million people were already living in the Americas. Of these, some 10 million lived in the area that would become the United States. As time passed, these migrants and their descendants pushed south and east, adapting as they went. The Arctic The Arctic culture area, a cold, flat, treeless region (actually a frozen desert) near the Arctic Circle in present-day Alaska, Canada and Greenland, was home to the Inuit and the Aleut. The Inuit and Aleut had a great deal in common. The Subarctic The Northeast The Southeast The Plains The Southwest The Great Basin California The Northwest Coast The Plateau

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